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Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. He has written books including Blood Brothers, Nehru: The Making of India, Kashmir: Behind the Vale, Riot After Riot, The Shade of Swords, and India: The Siege Within. Close.

M.J. Akbar

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Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. more »

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September 10, 2007 3:48 PM

Adversaries Will Capitalize on a Distracted America

One wonders if it has struck anyone in Washington that America's adversaries - enemies is an inappropriate word in the post-Soviet world - want America to remain mired in the poisonous swamp of Iraq for the foreseeable future. The real prison in Iraq is not the one holding prisoners in Abu Ghraib, but the black hole that has transformed American foreign policy into a tunnel with only two departure points: Iraq and its neighbor Iran.

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